Word: monument
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...marble and bronze in momentous proportions, a project that has been frustrated ever since F.D.R.'s death on April 12, 1945. In 1969 L.B.J. designated 27 acres along Cherry Tree Walk in the Tidal Basin-between the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials-as a park for a Roosevelt monument. One earlier design had been ridiculed as "instant Stonehenge" and dumped in 1960. Two other attempts also faltered...
Even Cort, a Widener employee, admits that during his college years, he avoided the marble and brick monument...
Although a sign on Widener's front door proclaims that tourists are not allowed inside, the Harvard monument is a major tourist attraction...
...corner of Howard and Callender streets sits a monument to Riverside's diversity, the Cambridge Community Center...
...festivities, began at high noon. After the oath, he gave an inaugural address designed to reach out to all Americans, to rally the nation to work together for a great common future. The network anchors broadcast live from Washington, and the new leader was photographed gazing at the Washington Monument and embracing his mother...